Hi guys. Need help. Yesterday my n900 got a notification telling me it couldn't receive any messages because the memory was full. Since the device got completely unresponsive I tried rebooting. It was a mistake it seems. Now it gets stuck at the 5 dots every time I try to reboot. It doesn't crash, but it doesn't get past that part and never gets to maemo.

Is there a way to get my stuff off of MyDocs before reflashing? Thanks in advance for any help.

flash kernel only, if its booting then ssh into ur N900 and do full reflash, maybe others can help, sorry for my bad english

Thanks, I will try!

edit: did a search bu couldn't find a way to flash the kernel only. What do I need to do this?

Flashing only the kernel from a FIASCO image (expert topic!)

If you only want to flash a kernel from a FIASCO image without overwriting your rootfs (e.g. because you tried out a different kernel and that didn't work) you can use the following flasher command instead of the one above:

sudo ./flasher-3.5 -F <firmware-image> --flash-only=kernel -f -R

This will flash the kernel from the FIASCO image and then reboot your device. The rootfs will not be touched by this. NB a kernel usually needs matching modules in rootfs, so odds are your kernel from FIASCO image won't work either, if you messed up the modules in rootfs - you need to flash whole COMBINED/FIASCO image then to recover.


I got this from wiki .I am no expert though.

there is a link on wiki.maemo about upgrading the firmware, be careful and goodluck

Thank you so much guys. Flashing only the kernel seems to have worked to get it booting again at least. I'm just gonna transfer my stuff from MyDocs and then reflash the whole thing.